Re: Is FreeBSD a Novelty Operating System?

pasta <pasta@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello, rac! Why did you morph?

I understand that it has many problems:
1. the windows system cannot be used for much of the new windows
software

Sentence is unclear, but perhaps a reference to the upgrade to Xorg 7.2.
A moderately painful update, but easy enough if you follow directions.

and a complicated unreliable method must be used to 'upgrade'
the system.

Sentence is unclear, but perhaps a reference to cvsup?

2. From reading this group, it only works with a limited number of printers.

Your experience with a host-based Lexmark shows that "you get what you
pay for". What happened to the other printer you were buying?

3. No one actually makes software for FreeBSD. All software is 'ported'
from other operating systems.

Let's be generous and say that's based on a fundamental
misunderstanding.

4. The only real users of FreeBSD are the (gifted) geeks who contribute
to the code which is FreeBSD. This system would seem to be the ultimate
automated system to massage the egos of geeky coders.

Backhanded compliment combined with a troll; I'd give it a 6 out of 10.

Why would any HOME user want to use it as an alternative desktop?

Freedom, speed, dependability. But that's not for everyone.

--
Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA
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